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)-Curcuphenol has been re-ported previously as a metabolite of the gorgonian soft coral Pseudopterogorgia rígida (1) and the terrestrialplant Lasianthaeapodocephala (2, 3). Thespectral and physical data observed for 1 dif-fered from the reported values only in the sign of the optical rotation, indicating that thesponge metabolite is enan-tiomeric with the previously reported metabolite. 1 The structure of 2 was de-termined by spectral methods and con-firmed by dehydration of 2 to form (+)-curcuphenol.